I suspect the major browser vendors are not incentivized to create a solution for this problem. In the case of Microsoft and Google, they'd prefer you avoided bookmarks and asked their search engine so that they can serve you ads. Apple has never prioritized cross platform conveniences, so that leaves out Safari. Firefox is better about this, but only with other instances of Firefox.
I would say 90% tabs are unimportant, but I am afraid to nuke the session from orbit because there are some hard to find links / important ones in there.
Each project gets a new note in Obsidian or OneNote or whatever note taking tool you are using. Each day gets a new #H1 heading with the day. Any relevant URLs get added to the note.
At the end of the day, review your notes and clean them up to be concise. Explain to your future self what you did and why those links are important.
Then close your browser tabs, they are saved in the notes.
If you need the content from the website itself (maybe you are concerned about the site disappearing), use something like Pocket or copy code snippets, text, etc directly into the note. Screenshots help too.
Personally, I have stopped trying to understand why people do it. I’m just not wired that way. I am fairly sure my way of organising and sorting through information would be similarly bemusing to someone from the other side. If you are in product, it’s just a good reminder that you are not representative of your users.
It may be working for you.
People who easily accumulate 1000s of tabs, though, would now have 1000 page notebook and 1000 tabs. Don't ask me how I know.
Are they easy to find in the list of 4400 tabs?
Thus according to this strategy I would just nuke my session and start from a blank sheet as I won't be missing it. For the same reason I donated and sold tons of stuff over the year before each move because I realised there is no point owning something you use only every 10 full moons or can't even remember it is hidden somewhere in a storage room. You can borrow/rent that to someone.
Besides, you should still have the links in your history.
The bigger problem with bookmarks for me is the inability to manage relationships. With the Tree Style Tabs add-on in Firefox and vertical tabs in Orion, child tabs are opened in a tree. It codifies my search context and makes tab management quite easy. The analog in bookmarks is using folders, but they’re rather tedious to create when bookmarking and I can’t think of any browser that will auto-create nested folders when bulk bookmarking tabs.
Absent that, it’s considerably easier to leave the tabs open. The tree will even be restored when the browser starts should I need to reboot.
I can't understand the tab thing when history is pretty easily accessed in modern browsers... but it's common enough not to judge too harshly.
It is like I have a huge desk with papers that appear to be strewn across it, but actually are organized and the layout is important to my train of thought.
Support different groupings, regexp renaming, persistent original date order + additional last used orders, etc. (I have a longish list of wants).
I want better autofiltering on history (eg: dump all map url's that proliferate on every slight viewport change; dump all (say) HN links unless explicitly saved; save type XXX, quesry type YYY's for saving, etc) and overall more thought on easy organisation and "restoring" a particuar view of the internet from X time ago.
Also i think they're bringing back tabgroups : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39985626
For me, i never really liked tab groups. I prefer to organize my tabs under topical windows. Tab groups is kind of an ugly duckling in that paradigm, but thats just me.
Its an amazing technical feat to handle that ...
But a total UI failure because this isn't what I wanted.
In comparison, my Safari session is well managed in several tab groups.
Interestingly, the 'Close Duplicate Tabs' things made the situation worse, because it takes ~5 seconds for the overflow menu to show. I guess they are doing some work on the UI thread.